About Dr. Bensadon

Dr. Bensadon was born and raised in New York City by his single mother and grandmother. This upbringing taught him the importance of active listening and exposed him to the human capacity for both suffering and resilience. It also created his deep respect for the aged. Dr. Bensadon has applied these insights professionally by serving the vulnerable and helping lead the nation in humanizing health care. For more than a decade he has integrated psychology into clinical and academic medicine. As faculty at 3 medical schools, he has led and mentored physicians, advance practice nurses, and allied health professionals. In 2015 he assembled and led a team of physicians and psychologists as Editor of a collaborative text titled Psychology & Geriatrics: Integrated Care for an Aging Population, and was 1 of 15 selected to the inaugural cohort of national geriatrics leadership scholars by the country’s leading professional geriatrics societies (Read More).

As an educator, Dr. Bensadon has directed required clinical rotations in geriatrics and palliative care for medical students and internal medicine residents; precepted/supervised nurse practitioners; and directed gerontology graduate programs.  Dr. Bensadon has led hospital-based teaching rounds and noon conference presentations, and has required medical students and residents shadow him during his patient encounters in the primary care clinic. He has also provided academic and peak performance consultation to collegiate athletes.

Beyond academia Dr. Bensadon has collaborated with physicians in primary care (internal/family medicine), specialists (cardiology, oncology, rehabilitation, neurology, gastroenterology, psychiatry, rheumatology), and surgeons, via his independent practice & as part of a large, multispecialty group medical practice where he cared for 25-30 patients per week alongside nearly 100 physician & advance practice nurse and physician assistant colleagues.

Service
In addition to providing clinical education to trainees and clinical care to medical patients, families, and informal caregivers, Dr. Bensadon has helped lead initiatives for clinicians, as the nation aims to buffer the ongoing crisis of clinician burnout. These efforts include planning roles with county medical societies and direct provision of clinical consultation and intervention to internal medicine residents, emergency department providers, and Hospice and palliative medicine clinicians managing the impact of the novel Coronavirus.

Research/Science
Dr. Bensadon has delivered 60 scholarly presentations to public and professional (scientific/medical) audiences and authored 18 peer-reviewed publications in scientific and medical journals. He is also a peer reviewer for high impact journals including the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Academic Psychiatry, Clinical Interventions in Aging, and Patient Education and Counseling.

Select Publications (PubMed)

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Education/Credentials

  • National Geriatrics Leadership Scholar – Emerging Leaders in Aging, Tideswell/American Geriatrics Society
  • Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellowship - Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine; University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
  • Postdoctoral Residency - Clinical Gero-psychology; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
  • Ph.D. – Counseling Psychology; University of Florida (Doctoral Dissertation: Memory Self-Efficacy & Stereotype Effects in Aging)
  • Graduate Certificate, Gerontology, University of Florida
  • M.S. – Psychology; University of Florida (Master’s Thesis: Self-Efficacy & Memory Aging)
  • Ed.M. – Education; Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Boston University
  • B.A. – Psychology, Boston University

Doctoral Training (Scientist-Practitioner Model)

Research:

  1. Links between older adult cognition & sleep quality; treatment efficacy of behavioral sleep medicine/cognitive behavioral intervention for insomnia (CBT-I)
  2. Links between older adult memory self-efficacy (i.e., confidence), aging stereotypes, and memory performance.

Clinical:

  1. University student mental health (3 years)
  2. Behavioral health integration, family medicine residency clinic (2 years)

Prior to doctoral training Dr. Bensadon spent 2 years at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he completed graduate coursework in epidemiology & health policy.

Licensure
Dr. Bensadon is a fully licensed psychologist in both Florida and New York. In addition, he has also credentialed with PSYPACT, an interjurisdictional consortium enabling qualified clinicians to provide tele-health (i.e., online) services across most states.